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State Of The Nation Welcome to State of the Nation, a five-part series about North Carolina's pivotal role in American history over the past 50 years. The fall from power is never short, and it’s rarely graceful. The South was a bastion of ultimate Democratic Party control for the better part of the 20th Century, and there was nowhere where that one-party system flourished more than in North Carolina. After riding into the century on a wave of racist, anti-Reconstruction rhetoric, the Democrats—not the state’s citizens—determined for the state, and the region, that the concept of the two-party system was more a suggestion than a mandate. And so, within that single all-consuming party that housed segregationists and pro-slavery industrialists developed a second faction. This one was home to the occasional pro-labor, pro-integration, pro-subsidies liberal, but mostly, it was made up of middle-ground, pro-business, faux progressives. Think the political reality … [Read more...] about The Limits of the New South

On June 4th, a group of lawyers shuffled into a federal court in Manhattan to argue over two trademark registrations. The day’s hearing was the culmination of months of internet drama — furious blog posts, Twitter hashtags, YouTube videos, claims of doxxing, and death threats. The lawyers carried with them full-color exhibits of the trademarks in context. First up, two shirtless men with stethoscopes, embracing a woman, with the words Her Cocky Doctors boldly printed below. Next: two shirtless men flanking a woman in a too-big firefighter’s jacket, with the words Her Cocky Firefighters emblazoned in the same font. “What is in the content of Her Cocky Firefighters?” asked the judge, surveying the exhibits. “It appears to be a male-female-male romance,” said a lawyer for one of the defendants. “Beyond that, I imagine it involves one or two of the male characters is a firefighter.” The judge looked over Her Cocky Doctors. … [Read more...] about How a cabal of romance writers cashed in on Amazon Kindle Unlimited

Sections Skip to content Skip to site index Feature Why did female members of Nxivm follow a guru named Keith Raniere, who now stands accused of sex trafficking? He made them feel like they were in control. Keith Raniere Credit Stefan Ruiz for The New York Times Supported by ByVanessa Grigoriadis May 30, 2018 Leer en español One winter morning in a conventional suburb outside Albany, N.Y., Nancy Salzman, the 63-year-old president of a self-improvement company named Nxivm, sat on a mahogany-colored stool in her kitchen. Her tasteful home was surrounded by other Nxivm members’ modest townhouses or capacious stone mansions that seemed to spring up out of nowhere, like mushrooms, on the suburban streets. In Salzman’s den, a photo of her with her two adult daughters hung on a wall, the three of them wearing smiles as wide as ancient Greek masks of comedy; the same happy photo served as the wallpaper on Salzman’s laptop. A … [Read more...] about The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment

On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser to President Obama, joins Swisher onstage at South By Southwest 2018. The conversation ranges from political advice (How can the Democrats take back the House?) to personal (What advice would Jarrett give her 30-year-old self?). You can read a write-up of the interview here or listen to the whole thing in the audio player above. Below, we’ve also provided a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts. Kara Swisher: Hi, I’m Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. You’re listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media’s key players, big ideas and how they’re changing the world we live in. Today, we’re going to play an interview I conducted at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, at Vox … [Read more...] about Full transcript: Former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett on Recode Decode